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Reconciliation

For months few have mentioned it. But as the public option withers on the Senate vine, progressive groups are beginning to push Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to use reconciliation rather than pass a health care reform bill without a public option in it.

Whitewashing Reality

Is there anything more important than the issue of terrorism? Domestic terrorism and foreign-based terrorism that aims to strike us internally?

Glenn Beck's Racist Friends

Beck insists his critics are imagining things, that he does not engage in racial fear-mongering, that a string of guests with ties to hate groups do not form a meaningful pattern, and that he's not a racist.

Media Immigration Human Rights Environment Water Health Drugs Sex Corporations and Work World Politics Take Action 3 Silly Religious Beliefs Held By Non-Silly People

Many of the beliefs held by religious moderates -- smart people who respect science and the separation of church and state -- are as untenable as the dogma of fundamentalists.

Tea-Parties so Diverse, They Had to Use the Same Black Guy in 5 Different Scenes of Tea-Bagger Movie

Really, you know a black tea-bagger named Nate? So there's this ludicrous trailer for a ridiculous movie about the Tea Party people that came out today, and when I watched it I noticed that it kept showing the same black guy.

Police Report Filed by Acorn Exposes False Claims in Gotcha Vids

in a newly released video, ACORN Housing Corp.'s Katherine Conway Russell directly rebuts recent claims about the organization.

Is Right-Wing Media Hustler Trying to "Blackmail" Obama's Attorney General over ACORN Videos?

Andew Breitbart appears to be threatening to release more ACORN smear videos to avoid a serious DOJ investigation.

The terrible shock of realit

Steve Benen examines the foolish inconsistency of the right-wing outrage over the plans to put terrorists on trial in civilian courts.

Glenn Beck, "The Plan," and 100 years of anger, paranoia, and extremism

So what was Glenn Beck's big, massive, history-altering announcement? Is he running for office? Founding a PAC? Setting up a third party?

Political Theater of the Absurd

Tragedy was the election in 2000 due to election fraud and the partisan, political interference of the U.S. Supreme Court that will forever tarnish that court.

Scrutinizing the scrutinizers...

And you think we have too much government bureaucracy? This story from the London Telegraph got me to thinking: How about a congressional oversight committee to oversee the committees that oversee Congress' oversight committees? It's probably just a matter of time.

Coal-Fueled Chamber Of Commerce Demands Lawmakers Defeat Health Reform In Order To 'Stop' Clean Energy Bill

Corporate front groups and large business trade associations are funneling their resources into defeating health reform.

Best Joke Of The Week

Sarah Palin says that she felt ambushed when Katie Couric asked her what newspaper she read. This coming from a woman who shoots wolves from a helicopter!

Cafe Press Bans All 'Pray For Obama: Psalm 109:8′ Merchandise

This week, both the websites of CafePress.com and Zazzle.com decided to stop selling merchandise that featured the latest right-wing craze: the slogan "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8." However, Cafe Press then changed its mind and told ThinkProgress that it was reinstating the m …

Stolen CRU emails: Who are the criminals behind the conspiracy theorists?

Former Republican strategist Marc Morano is having as much fun with the stolen emails from the Climate Research Unit that he did with the Swift Boat Veteran's for Truth attack he led against John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.

National Republican Congressional Committee Caught Misleading With Ellipses Again

The good people over at the National Republican Campaign Committee have a favorite punctuation mark, called the ellipsis.

Teabagger infighting leading to chaos

Splintered and infighting? Who could have imagined? Even more surprising is the claim that there is little management experience within the fractured group. It all sounded so dreamy a few short months ago.

Yet More Mind-Bending Racism From the Right-Wing Media

This time it's Washington Times editor Wesley Pruden. And it's pretty shocking.

Fox News displays old campaign footage to claim Palin is getting 'huge crowds' at her book signings.

This afternoon, Fox News host Gregg Jarrett proudly announced that Sarah Palin is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand new book.

Lou Dobbs and his many issues

Many Latinos probably feel like salsa dancing in the streets now that CNN has finally cleared the air by purging itself of Lou Dobbs.

War Vets Deported

Astonishingly, more than 30,000 foreign born detainees face deportation at some 350 facilities nationwide.

Palin's Prayer Leader Hinted Terrorist Attack Could Make Her President

Sarah Palin's Two-Decade Prayer Group Leader Mary Glazier Suggests Terrorism Could be Palin Career Boost

Sarah Palin Does Not Believe in Science, as If Anybody Thought She Might

Oh my God! Look at this huge revelation from Ricky Hollywood's son's grandmother's brand new book…

Palin's POWs

Four decades after being tortured in a North Korean prison camp, John McCain is trapped in a slow drip of accusations from Sarah Palin as she embarks on weeks of media ubiquity to promote her aptly titled, "Going Rogue."

Fox Despises Communism, but Mao's Money Talks: Murdoch and His Chinese Ties

Glenn Beck's tirades about tenuous connections have already faced a fair share of ridicule, but his boss, Rupert Murdoch, must get a little nervous every time Beck decries someone as a communist bane to the U.S.

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